New Brain Injury Study Findings Have Been Reported by Investigators at University Hospital (A Neuropsychological Approach In a Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury Unit Under the Public Health System): Central Nervous System Diseases and Conditions – Brain Injury

2023 JUN 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Central Nervous System Diseases and Conditions - Brain Injury. According to news originating from Madrid, Spain, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Paediatric acquired brain injury (ABI) causes cognitive and behavioural difficul-ties and alters the course of child development. The ABI unit at Hospital Infantil Universitario Nino Jesus is the first within the public Spanish health system to provide comprehensive coverage to these patients and their families.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from University Hospital, “This study aims to show the working methodology followed with patients and their families, and to describe the clinical characteristics of the patients treated and the outcomes of treatment. Fifty-three patients aged between three months and 16 and a half years received treatment. The conditions treated were brain tumours, stroke, traumatic brain injury, damage secondary to epilepsy surgery, and hypoxia. All patients were evaluated at admission and at discharge. Treatments were adapted to each patient’s difficulties and their severity, as well as to the patient’s age. Families received individual and group therapy. Older age was associated with better cognitive recovery and shorter duration of treat-ment. Different conditions show differential impact on intelligence quotient and developmental quotient scores at the beginning of treatment, with hypoxia and encephalitis being associa-ted with greatest severity. Intelligence quotient and developmental quotient scores and visual memory and attention scores at discharge improved significantly after the faceted neuropsy-chological treatment with respect to scores registered at admission.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The care of patients with ABI should include neuropsychological rehabilitation programmes and provide emotional support to the family so that they may actively participate in the recovery of the child or adolescent.”

For more information on this research see: A Neuropsychological Approach In a Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury Unit Under the Public Health System. Neurologia, 2023;38(1):8-15. Neurologia can be contacted at: Elsevier Espana Slu, Av Josep Tarradellas, 20-30, 1ERA Planta, Barcelona, Cp-08029, Spain. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Neurologia - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurologia/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from S. Camara Barrio, University Hospital Nino Jesus, Serv Psiquiatria & Psicol, Unidad Dano Cerebral Adquirido, Unidad Neuropsicol Clin, Madrid, Spain. Additional authors for this research include B. Esteso Orduna, M. T. Vara Arias, S. Rodriguez Palero and M. C. Fournier del Castillo.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nrl.2020.04.019. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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